The Illustrated Field Guide to Internet Kooks

Like I said, I've been fascinated by kooks since the 1970s and the other day I thought it might be amusing and useful to put together a partial
compilation of some of their attributes (not all attributes, of course, and not all kooks, either.)

Your comment on "don't believe me, do your own research" is also interesting.

However, that statement, I think is one we should all adere to, no matter the circumstances, even if it's something that "cannot be proved" such as
galactic travelors.

As I said, it's a good personal practice, but overuse or over emphasis generally indicates that the claims being made are supported by
self-referential, ambiguous or nonexistent evidence.

Its great to be able to hear from a member who is familiar with the history of the internet, however, you your self have not really made any
factual commitments, you have just offered your own conclusion based on assumtions.

In your OP you opened stating that you are a Software Engineer; This to me is an admission of kookism--did you ever wonder why the early web (and Im
refering to just web; not telnet, gopher, et al) was full of kooks? its because it was us kooks who bothered to hard code ugly HTML pages of
nonsensical content. Apparently because normal people had better things to do in the 90's.

John Melvin Davis is well known among internet gunnies as Gunkid, Hardin, Andy, and a hundred other pseudonyms he would use to disrupt gun
forums. Gunkid was the inventor of the assault wheelbarrow, the advocate of a "debarked" Chihuahua as an alarm system, and a .223 fired from a
10" barrel as the ultimate weapon, which he claimed was useful up to 300yds, but only when used with a suppressor because Gunkid had a severe flinch
when shooting without one.

He liked to allude to his magnificent IPSC shooting career. There are no records of his exploits. However, there are complete records of other
competitors scores, shot in the time frame he claims to have been a competitor.

You know nothing of The Cassiopaeans, 'the scientific mystic' Laura, looks at everything she does objectively, doesn't try to make anyone believe
anything, but conducts her 'experiments' with 'Super-luminal' communication with an objective mind.

Other then her, your list is quite the laugh. But I disagree with painting her with the same brush as the others. I don't want to derail the thread
defending that site but please do a little more than read the first two paragraphs of their website.

Man, it makes my head hurt just looking at some of those excerpts you have at the bottom of your post. I seriously don't know how you have the
mental constitution to have this as a hobby. But thanks for posting, I guess...

I bore witness to a kook once at a very legitimate scientific meeting, that of the American Geophysical Union. The guy had on a very big, heavy-duty
rain slicker, which looked like it had drool on it -- seriously. He got up during the Q&A section at the end of a talk by a very prominent
theoretical seismologist and just went on a very long and incoherent spiel, which involved some theory of physics he had written a treatise on. The
speaker did an amazingly graceful job of trying to be polite to him, but ignoring his insane question and the session somehow continued without
further incident. I was afraid the guy would go seismic (analogous to going postal) on the speaker or the crowd.

How could I forget angelfire... tripod... did tucows have hosting??? ok, I cant remember any other free hosting from back then but it was a long time
ago and a lot of brain-cells have been lost in the meantime.

This thread is going to give me nightmares about tables for layout and alt tags displaying in the status bar

The internet definitely makes the worms crawl out of the woodwork. It's a good outlet for people who can't function in the real world. If you wanna
meet the dregs of society, spend some time in the 'net.

You know nothing of The Cassiopaeans, 'the scientific mystic' Laura, looks at everything she does objectively, doesn't try to make anyone
believe anything, but conducts her 'experiments' with 'Super-luminal' communication with an objective mind.

Other then her, your list is quite the laugh. But I disagree with painting her with the same brush as the others. I don't want to derail the thread
defending that site but please do a little more than read the first two paragraphs of their website.

I had my fill of Cassiopean bunk during the Comet Elenin hysteria. Funny, she seems to have deleted all that material from her website. For a closer
look at Laura, please read this:

One of the kookiest of the kooks is Sorcha Faal. Self described as anything from Jesus incarnate to (insert ego tripping name here). This
person writes some convincing stories that are made up of a thin shell of truth to sell the big lie within. A discussion board I used to post on had
anything from this person on the not allowed list. There was some speculation that it was a female Russian disinformation agent, but that was never
proved. For some expert fear mongering follow the link in the first sentence.

Posting "information" provided by Sorcha Faal is also not permitted here. Here is an interesting thread:

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